Some 3,80,000 Syrian refugee babies were born in Turkey, the minister said, expressing his individual wish to issue them citizenship as well.

"That will be the biggest investment in our brotherhood for another century," Xinhua quoted Soylu as saying.

A total of 28,000 of them had the right to vote in the June 24 elections and 36,000 Syrian refugees are now eligible to cast votes in upcoming local elections in March 2019, he added.

Turkey has been hosting a large number of refugees since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. The number of registered Syrian refugees in October stood at 3.59 million, according to the UN refugee agency.